Thursday, September 11, 2014

The official numbers from the Grupo Aereoportuario del Pacífico (GAP) indicated
the Vallarta-Nayarit International Airport has recovered 139,718 seats between
January and August of this year; during the first semester of 2014, 50% of the
international visitors to the Riviera Nayarit were from Canada, 44% were from
the United States and other world destinations made up the remaining 6%.

The
information from the Grupo Aeroportuario
del Pacífico (GAP), verifies the continued rise in the recovery of seats on
international flights to the Vallarta-Nayarit International Airport.

The official
number is 139,718 seats recovered during the period between January and August
2014, which represents an increase of 21% over the same time period in 2013.
These are only incoming from the United States and Canada.

The United
States saw 109,188 recovered seats during this aforementioned time period;
Canada showed a total of 30,530.

However, from
January to June of this year, 616,400 international tourists from North America
arrived to the Vallarta-Nayarit region: 439,710 from the United States and 176,690
from Canada. These numbers do not reflect any visitors from other parts of the
world.

According to
surveys conducted by the Riviera Nayarit Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB),
there were 341,174 international tourists registered during the first semester
of the current year, 320,703 of which were from Canada and the United States.

Canada placed
first in the number of international tourists arriving in the Riviera Nayarit
during the first semester of 2014, accounting for 50% of the total; the United
States accounted for 44% and the rest of the world accounted for the remaining
6%.

“North American
tourism continues to be very important to our destination; it’s our natural
market and it far exceeds any other, with the exception of our domestic market,
which has historically been the greatest generator of visitors to the region,”
assured Marc Murphy, Managing Director of the Riviera Nayarit CVB.

This does not mean other markets have been neglected:
England, for example, has been well targeted and the destination is seeing
excellent results. There were 10,815 new seats created from May through August
of 2014, which have resulted in a total of 9,240 tourists to the region from
the Manchester and London airports.